⑱ Science Craft: Science button badges

Let’s look at living things using a microscope! You can make an original button badge featuring your favorite view under the microscope or from photos of different animals. photos and create the original one to choose various living thing images!
　1F Building C　
Time：All day (final admission 16:00)
※Admission into event area may be restricted in case of overcrowding.
Organized by：Lab for Lung Development and Regeneration, Lab for Morphogenetic Signaling, Lab for Epithelial Morphogenesis, Lab for Cell Asymmetry

 

 

⑲ Science craft: Animal Origami

The most popular origami is Tsuru (crane). But you can make other animals with origami. Let’s try to make various animals! This is an event that both adults and children can enjoy.
　1F Building C　
Time：All day (last admission 16:00)
※Admission in the event area may be restricted in case of overcrowding.
Organized by：Lab for Homeodynamics, Lab for Vascular Morphogenesis, Lab for Heart Regeneration, Lab for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics.

 

 

⑳ Experience how to manipulate a mouse embryo!

Try your hand at microinjection, a technique used to make genetically modified mice, using a simulator. We will also introduce how to generate genetically modified mice and our research using mice.
　1F Building C　
Time：All day
Organized by：Lab for Chromosome Segregation, Lab for Animal Resources and Genetic Engineering, Lab for Organismal Patterning.

 

 

㉑ Micro-scale communication creates organs

We will introduce how skin is formed through communication between diverse cell types. You can observe skin samples, and movies of living skin.
　1F Building C　
Time：10:00-12:30 13:30-16:30
Organized by：Lab for Tissue Microenvironment

 

 

㉒ Let’s view animal development.

Let’s view the processes of embryonic development of chick and zebrafish using microscopes! We will also introduce our research about how animal tissues are formed.
　1F Building C　
Time：All day
Laboratory name：Lab for Developmental Morphogeometry

 

 

㉓ How to make kidneys from human stem cells

iPS cells are capable of becoming any cell in the human body, but how can we make kidney cells in the lab that correctly reflect those in our own tissues?
　1F Building C　
Time：All day
Target group：12 years and older
Organized by：Lab for Human Organogenesis

 

 

㉔ How is our body formed?

How does our body arise from a small, single cell? Can we generate our body artificially? What
　1F Building C　
Time：All day
Organized by：Lab for Organ Regeneration

 

 

㉕ What will it look like when it grows up? Let’s guess!

See pictures of developing embryos of various species. Try to guess what they will become after they develop! Swimming frogs will be cheering you on!
　4F Building C　
Time：All day
Organized by：Lab for Evolutionary Morphology, Lab for Axial Pattern Dynamics

 

 

㉖ Individual counselling for female junior/high school and university students aspiring to STEM fields

Scientists and staff working at RIKEN and Mukogawa Women’s University will be available for one-on-one counselling to anyone aspiring to STEM fields. Researchers from diverse fields are ready to offer their advice, so don’t miss this opportunity. Male students are also welcome!
　4F Building C　
Time：11:00-16:30
Target group：Junior and senior high school and university students
Organized by：RIKEN Diversity Promotion Office, Mukogawa Women’s University